BLOOMINGTON – Indiana will play in the 2015 Maui Invitational, the Hoosiers’ first trip to the annual non-conference tournament in Hawaii since 2008.

IU will be joined in the field by Kansas, St. John’s, UCLA, UNLV, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest and annual host Chaminade.

“We’ve been recruiting to it a little bit,” IU coach Tom Crean said. “We’ll recruit to it even more. ... It gives you an incredible measuring stick early in the season.

“When you can get Maui, you have to take that. There’s no question about that.”

Indiana is 9-6 all-time in five appearances in the Maui Invitational, including a 3-0 run in the 2002-03 season and a 1-2 mark in the program’s most recent appearance, 2008-09, Crean’s first year in Bloomington.